Instructions to Authors
Social Psychology

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Social Psychology is a publication dedicated to international research in social psychology as
well as a forum for scientific discussion and debate. The sole publishing language is English,
and there are 6 issues per year.
Aims and ScopeSocial Psychology publishes innovative and methodologically sound research and serves as
an international forum for scientific discussion and debate in the field of social psychology.
Topics include all basic social psychological research themes, methodological advances insocial psychology, as well as research in applied fields of social psychology. The journal
focuses on original empirical contributions to social psychological research, but is open totheoretical articles, critical reviews, and replications of published research.
The journal welcomes original empirical and theoretical contributions to basic research insocial psychology, to social psychological methods, as well as contributions covering researchin applied fields of social psychology, such as economics, marketing, politics, law, sports, theenvironment, the community, or health. Preference will be given to original empirical andexperimental manuscripts, but theoretical contributions, critical reviews, and replications ofpublished research are welcome as well.
Experience and Innovation
The journal was published until volume 38 (2007) as the Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie(ISSN 0044-3514). Drawing on over 30 years of experience and tradition in publishing highquality, innovative science as the Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, Social Psychology has aninternationally renowned team of editors and consulting editors from all areas of basic andapplied social psychology, thus ensuring that the highest international standards aremaintained.
Transparency, Openness, and Replicability
Social Psychology is committed to increasing openness and transparency of the research
process. We therefore require authors to(a) report sample size and power considerations,(b) report effect sizes and confidence intervals for these effect sizes,(c) to share their data (upon acceptance),(d) to share their materials (upon acceptance)(e) to share their analytic code producing the reported findings (upon acceptance)
In addition, we encourage authors to preregister experiments with their analysis plans.
Authors will report whether they preregistered their studies and, if they did, to provide therespective URL in the manuscript. We also encourage authors to include the 21-wordstatement by Simmons, Nelson, and Simonsohn (2011) for empirical studies:“We report how we determined our sample size, all data exclusions (if any), allmanipulations, and all measures in the study.“2/8Instructions to Authors

Publication Ethics
It is important to the Hogrefe Publishing Group that our scientific journals and all the people
involved adhere to the highest ethical standards. Please take a moment to review ourguidelines on what this means for authors, editors, reviewers, and us as a publisher.
Authors must ensure that all research meets these ethical guidelines and affirm that theresearch has received permission from a stated Research Ethics Committee (REC) or
Institutional Review Board (IRB), including adherence to the legal requirements of the study
country.

Social Psychology publishes the following types of articles
Original Articles, Research Reports, and Replications.
Original Articles report empirical and/or theoretical contributions to social psychologicalresearch; they should not exceed 8,000 words (including abstract, text, references, notes,appendices, as well as figures and tables).
Research Reports present concise descriptions of innovative empirical findings; theyshould not exceed 3,500 words (including abstract, text, references, notes, appendices, aswell as figures and tables).
Replications offer the opportunity to report successful or failed replications of existing
research; they should not exceed 3,500 words (including abstract, text, references, notes,appendices, as well as figures and tables). Please note that electronic supplementary material(ESM) is not included in the word count.
Rapid Turnaround
Social Psychology offers a rapid and transparent peer-review process and a short time-lag
between acceptance of papers and publication. The time between manuscript submission andeditorial decision is usually less than 8 weeks. Mean time from submission to first decision(2019): 60 days.
Manuscript Submission
All manuscripts should be submitted online at http://www.editorialmanager.com/sopsy,
including electronic supplementary material (ESM). Please follow the online instructions forsubmission. Should you have any technical queries regarding this process, please contact
Juliane Munson, Hogrefe Publishing (E-mail production@hogrefe.com).
Please direct any editorial questions to the editorial office:E-mail SocialPsych.EditorialOffice@gmail.com

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Manuscript format and style
Blind reviewing is mandatory
Authors should therefore remove all potentially identifying information from the manuscript,
replacing names and any indication of the university where a study was conducted by neutral
placeholders.
Title page
To facilitate blind reviewing, the Title Page of the submitted manuscript should include
only the paper’s title and running head. A second title page including all author information
should be submitted as a separate document. This should include the title, author name(s)(preceded by first names, but with no academic titles given); name of institute (if there ismore than one author or institution, affiliations should be indicated, using superscript Arabicnumerals); and an address for correspondence (including the name of the corresponding
author and e-mail address).
Author contribution
We encourage the inclusion of a section headed Authorship which outlines theconributions of the individual authors to the paper using relevant CrediT roles, formatted asin the following example with author order as on the article:
Philipp Yang, conceptualization, methodology; Ina Smith, funding acquisition;
Sun Cheung, writing – review & editing.
Please refer to https://credit.niso.org/ for the contributor roles.
Abstract
An Abstract (maximum length 120 words) should be printed on a separate sheet for original
papers, reviews, and reports. A maximum of 5 keywords should be given after the abstract.
Reference Citations in the text and in the reference list proper should follow conventions
listed in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th ed. (APAManual).
Tables and Figures
Tables should be numbered using Arabic numerals. Tables must be cited in the text (e.g.,‘‘As shown in Table 1, . . .’’). Each table should be printed on a separate sheet. Below the table
number, a brief descriptive title should be given; this should then be followed by the body ofthe table. It is recommended that each table should also include a brief explanatory legend.
Figures should be numbered using Arabic numerals. Each figure must be cited in the text
(e.g., ‘‘As illustrated in Figure 1, . . .’’) and should be accompanied by a legend on a separate
sheet. As online submission requires papers to be submitted as one file, figures and tables etc
should be embedded or appended to the paper and not be sent as separate files. However,upon acceptance of an article, it may be necessary for figures to be supplied separately in a4/8

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files. Where this is necessary, the corresponding author will be notified by the publishers.
Note that an allowance for any tables and figures should be deducted from the above
depending on their size (approximately 200 words per quarter print page).
Scientific nomenclature and style
Authors should follow the guidelines of the APA Manual (7th ed.) regarding style andnomenclature. Authors should avoid using masculine generic forms in their manuscripts.
General statements about groups of people should be written in gender-neutral form (seeAPA Manual); when presenting examples, authors may alternate between female and maleforms throughout their text. In the reference list make sure to provide the DOIs (DigitalObject Identifier) of the cited journal articles.
Language
It is recommended that authors who are not native speakers of English have their papers
checked and corrected by a native-speaker colleague before submission. Standard US
American spelling and punctuation as given in Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary should
be followed.

Open Data and Electronic Supplementary Material (ESM)
Authors may submit study data, analysis scripts, and other study materials for manuscriptsthat involve new data as Electronic Supplementary Materials (ESM). In general, ESM may befiles that were used to carry out the research (such as datasets) or additional items that are
not essential for inclusion in the full text but would nevertheless benefit the reader. Being
electronic, ESM can also include items that cannot, at this time, be produced in print form.
ESM will be published online as received from the author(s) without any conversion, testing,or reformatting. They will not be checked for typographical errors or functionality. The
responsibility for the content and functionality remains entirely with the author(s).
Hogrefe Publishing does not provide technical support for the creation or viewing of thesupplementary files. If necessary, authors should seek the assistance of their local ITdepartment. Like the manuscript, ESM should be original and not previously published. If
previously published, it must be submitted with the necessary permissions. Note that theESM files, just like the article itself, are permanent records and may not be altered once they
have been published online.
Please ensure that any ESM submitted with the article is in compliance with the EU
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Submission of ESM
ESM files will be subjected to peer review along with the article itself. The number of ESM
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exceeding 10 MB in total. All file formats are accepted with the exception of executable files(e.g., .exe, .com, or .msi). Commonly used file formats that are accessible by most readers arepreferred. Following the online instructions, submit the ESM files in a single zip file separate
from the other files that are part of your submission.
Citation in manuscript
All ESM files must be referred to with in-text citations (as for tables, figures, and appendices)and should be numbered in the order in which they are cited in the text. Follow the example:
For more information, listen to the audio file in Electronic Supplementary Material 1.
or: (listen to the audio file in Electronic Supplementary Material 1)or: (the audio file is provided in Electronic Supplementary Material 1)
If appropriate, you may combine several ESM elements into a single file. For example:
See Tables 1–3 in Electronic Supplementary Material 1.
Include a section headed ‘‘Electronic Supplementary Material’’ at the end of your article
before the reference section. List all files in the order in which they are cited in the text.
Provide a title for each ESM file along with the file name. Optionally, you may also provide ashort description for each file (max. 20 words). Follow the example:
ESM 1. Audio file (.mp3). (= title and file name)
This audio file contains utterances of the study participants. (= description of file)
ESM 1. Tables 1–3 (.xlsx). (= title and file name)
The tables show additional p-values, weather variables, and demographic characteristics.
(= description of file)
Make sure that the file names listed here match the names of the submitted files. Please notethat only the title and the description will appear in the article; the file name will not. It is forreference purposes only.

Proofs
PDF proofs will be sent to the corresponding author. Changes of content or stylistic changes
may only be made in exceptional cases in the proofs. Corrections that exceed 5% of thetypesetting costs may be invoiced to the authors.

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Offprints
The corresponding author of each published article will receive free online access to thepublished version of record when the article is first released online. The author may
download the PDF of the published version of record. It is provided for the author’s personaluse, including for sharing with coauthors (see also ‘‘Guidelines on sharing and use of articles
in Hogrefe journals’’ on the journal’s web page at www.hgf.io/sopsy).

Copyright agreement
By submitting an article, the author confirms and guarantees on behalf of themselves and any
co-authors that the manuscript has not been submitted or published elsewhere, and that theyhold all copyright in and titles to the submitted contribution, including any figures,photographs, line drawings, plans, maps, sketches, and tables, and that the article and its
contents do not infringe in any way on the rights of third parties. The author indemnifies andholds harmless the publisher from any third-party claims.
The author agrees, upon acceptance of the article for publication, to transfer to the publisher
the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the article and its contents, both physically and innonphysical, electronic, or other form, in the journal to which it has been submitted and in otherindependent publications, with no limitations on the number of copies or on the form or theextent of distribution. These rights are transferred for the duration of copyright as defined byinternational law. Furthermore, the author transfers to the publisher the following exclusive
rights to the article and its contents:
1. The rights to produce advance copies, reprints, or offprints of the article, in full or in part,to undertake or allow translations into other languages, to distribute other forms or
modified versions of the article, and to produce and distribute summaries or abstracts.
2. The rights to microfilm and microfiche editions or similar, to the use of the article and its
contents in videotext, teletext, and similar systems, to recordings or reproduction using
other media, digital or analog, including electronic, magnetic, and optical media, and in
multimedia form, as well as for public broadcasting in radio, television, or other forms ofbroadcast.
3. The rights to store the article and its content in machine-readable or electronic form on all
media (such as computer disks, compact disks, magnetic tape), to store the article and its
contents in online databases belonging to the publisher or third parties for viewing or
downloading by third parties, and to present or reproduce the article or its contents on
visual display screens, monitors, and similar devices, either directly or via datatransmission.
4. The rights to reproduce and distribute the article and its contents by all other means,including photo-mechanical and similar processes (such as photocopying or facsimile), andas part of so-called document delivery services.

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5. The right to transfer any or all rights mentioned in this agreement, as well as rights
retained by the relevant copyright clearing centers, including royalty rights to thirdparties.

Online rights for journal articles
Guidelines on authors’ rights to archive electronic versions of their manuscripts online aregiven in the document ‘‘Guidelines on sharing and use of articles in Hogrefe journals’’ on thejournal’s web page at www.hgf.io/sopsy.
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